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LAREEF ZUBAIR Email: lareefzubair@gmail.com , lareef.zubair@columbia.edu, lareef@aya.yale.edu

Curriculum Vitae – Table of Contents

Education ................................................................................................................ 1 Employment ............................................................................................................ 1 Fellowships ............................................................................................................. 2 Editorial and Review Service.................................................................................. 2

Professional Associations and Service.................................................................... 2 Advisory and Capacity Building Programs ............................................................ 2 Computing Skills .................................................................................................... 3 Publications ............................................................................................................. 3 Grants ...................................................................................................................... 5

Teaching, Supervision and Mentoring .................................................................... 6

Presentations and Conference Contributions .......................................................... 7 Popular Publications ............................................................................................. 11

Press Reports ......................................................................................................... 12

Education Ph.D: Yale University, Engineering, 1993.

• Thesis title: "Studies in Turbulence using Wavelet Analysis for data compression and scale

separation". Courses in Engineering, Physics, Sociology, Political Science and Anthropology

M.Sc: Yale University, Chemical Engineering, 1990.

• Awarded University Fellowship, 1989-90.

B.Sc: University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Chemical and Mechanical Engineering, 1987.

• First Class Honors, Prize for the best undergraduate research project, Valedictorian.

University Consortium for Atmospheric Research, 2000 to 2001

• Post-Doctoral Research Scientist, on Climate Applications,

Yale University, U.S.A., 1993 - 1994

• Post-Doctoral Associate, Departments of Mathematics and Mechanical Engineering

Employment Foundation for Environment, Climate and Technology, Sri Lanka, 2002 to-date

Principal Scientist

Columbia University, 2002 to date

Adjunct Researcher, Columbia University Water Center (2014 to date)

Associate Research Scientist, International Research Institute for Climate and Society,

Climate, Climate Adaptation and Climate Applications, (Jan. 2002-to 2012)

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 1995 – 1997

Visiting Lecturer and co-PI, Faculty of Arts, Masters in Development

Senior Lecturer in Civil (Environmental) and Mechanical Engineering

William C. Fulbright Scholarship Board, D.C., 2012 to 2013

Senior Scholar, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka, 1997 – 1999

Research Fellow, Computational Mathematics

Yale University, U.S.A., 1993 - 1995

Tutor in Mathematics and Science, Jonathan Edwards College

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Fellowships Fulbright Visiting Specialist Fellowship, pending

Fulbright Senior Fellowship, Sri Lanka and Maldives, 2012-2013

Botswana Meteorological Service, Gaborone, Botswana, February 2007.

Exchange Fellow, Frontier Research System for Global Change, Yokohama, Japan,

2002.

Visiting Eminent Scientist, Ministry of Science and Technology, Sri Lanka, 2002.

Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India, December 1999.

International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics, Ames, Iowa, 1998.

International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, June 1998.

Jawarlhalal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research and Indian Institute of

Science, Bangalore, India, March 1997.

NSF Pittsburgh Supercomputing Centre, Course on parallel programming for

supercomputing, 1991.

Editorial and Review Service Reviewer

Environmental Science and Technology

Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science

Geophysical Research Letters

Hydrological Processes

Climatic Research

International Journal of Climatology

Journal of Climate

Journal of Geophysical Research

Journal of Hydrology

Journal of Hydrometeorology

Water Resources Research

Pure and Applied Geophysics

Editor Associate Editor: ASCE Journal of Energy Engineering - 2007 to 2012

Professional Associations and Service Member: American Geophysical Union, Indian, American Society of Civil Engineers, American

Association of Environmental Engineering Professors, American Meteorological Society,

Meteorological Society, Royal Meteorological Society, Agronomy Society of America,

International Association for Ecology & Health.

Founder: Sri Lanka Meteorology, Oceanography and Hydrology Network.

Advisory and Capacity Building Programs Invited Expert, Comoros Ministry of Fisheries and Hairu Fisheries Development Project

(Comoros), To develop climate research and its applications, Comoros. February 2014.

Invited Expert, Small Earth Nepal, and Center for Capacity Building, University of Colorado,

Program for young scientists.

Invited Adviser, Ministry of Environment, Male Maldives, To Develop a Program of Climate

Research and Services, August 2008, with follow up programs in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.

UNDP Totken Fellowship, for Developing a Masters in Sustainable Development Practice,

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka and Maldives National University, Maldives. 2009

Trainer on Developing Climate Outlooks, Pretoria and Gaborone, 2008.

Invited Expert, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, Physics of

Tsunami and its Impacts.

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Invited Expert, for Climate Diagnostics and Impacts on Malaria Transmission, Botswana

Meteorological Service, 2008

Invited Expert under Expatriate Scientist Program, Ministry of Science and Technology, Sri

Lanka, Capacity Building at the Department of Meteorology and Conducted Course on

Climate Diagnostics for Masters Students in Dynamical Meteorology at University of

Colombo. January-February 2002.

Computing Skills Unix, Cray, PC and MacOS Systems and Fortran, C, html, GIS, Matlab, Ingrid and R.

Publications (Collaborators who were supervised are listed in italics)

ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY

1. Zubair, L., 2005, Modernization of Sri Lanka’s Traditional Irrigation System and

Sustainability, Science, Technology and Society, 10 (20): 161-195.

2. Zubair, L., 2003, Development of Meteorological Studies in Sri Lanka, Journal of the

Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, 35 (2): 14-18, 2002

3. Zubair, L., 2002, An Assessment of Environmental Impact Assessment in Sri Lanka,

Environmental Impact Analysis Review, 21(5): 469-478.

HAZARDS AND DISASTERS

4. B. Lyon, Zubair, L., V. Ralapanawe and Z. Yahiya, 2009, Fine scale evaluation of drought

hazard for tropical climates, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, 48 (1): 77-88.

5. Zubair, L., V. Ralapanawe, U. Tennakone, Z. Yahiya, and R. Perera, 2006, Natural Disaster

Risks in Sri Lanka: Mapping Hazards and Risk Hotspots, Chapter 4, in Natural Disaster

Hotspots Case Studies, Washington, DC: World Bank 2006.

6. Zubair, L., 2004, May 2003 disaster in Sri Lanka and Cyclone 01-B in the Bay of Bengal,

Natural Hazards, 33: 303-318.

7. Zubair, L., U. Tennakone, Z. Yahiya, J. Chandimala & M.R.A. Siraj, 2004, What led to the

May 2003 Floods? Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVI (3): 51 – 56.

CLIMATE IMPACTS ON HEALTH

8. Zubair, L., G. Galapaththy, H. Yang, J. Chandimala, Zeenas Yahiya, P. Amerasinghe, MN

Ward, SJ Connor, 2009, Potential use of El Niño for malaria early warning in Sri Lanka,

Malaria Journal, 7:140.

9. Briet, OJT, GNL Galappaththy, L Zubair, P Vounatsou, 2006, Rainfall as predictor of

malaria in Sri Lanka, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF EPIDEMIOLOGY, 21, 45, 2006

CLIMATE IMPACTS ON AGRICULTURE

10. S. Peiris, J. Hansen and Zubair, L., Use of Seasonal Climate Information to Predict Coconut

Production in Sri Lanka, International Journal of Climatology, 28 (1) : 103-110.

11. Zubair, L., R. Perera and Z. Yahiya, 2004, Was the 2002/03 Maha bumper harvest due to El

Nino? Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVIII, (4): 63 – 70.

12. Zubair, L., 2002, El Nino Influences on Rice Production in Sri Lanka, International Journal

of Climatology, 22 (2):249-260

13. Fernando, N, L. Zubair, T.S.G. Peiris, C.S. Ranasinghe and J. Ratnasiri, 2004, Economic

Value of Climate Variability Impacts on Coconut Production in Sri Lanka, AIACC Working

Paper No. 45, Washington, DC: START.

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CLIMATE ADAPTATION

14. Rosenzweig, C., J.W. Jones, J.L. Hatfield, C.Z. Mutter, S.G.K. Adiku, A. Ahmad, Y. Beletse,

B. Gangwar, D. Guntuku, J. Kihara, P. Masikati, P. Paramasivan, K.P.C. Rao, and L. Zubair,

(2012). The Agricultural Model Inter-comparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP):

Integrated regional assessment projects. In Handbook of Climate Change and

Agroecosystems: Global and Regional Aspects and Implications. D. Hillel, and C.

Rosenzweig, Eds., ICP Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation Vol. 2.

Imperial College Press, 263-280. Also a contributor to other papers in the volume on

Integrated Assessment of the Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: An overview of the

AGMIP regional research in South Asia and The AgMIP Coordinated Climate-Crop

Modeling Project (C3MP): Methods and Protocols

15. L. Zubair, et al. (2013). Climate Change Impacts on Rice Farming Systems in North

Western Sri Lanka, In Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems: Global and

Regional Aspects and Implications. D. Hillel, and C. Rosenzweig, Eds., ICP Series on

Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation, Imperial College Press, forthcoming.

CLIMATE DIAGNOSTICS

16. Gadgil, S., M. Rajeevan, L. Zubair and P. Yadav, 2011, South Asian Monsoon: Inter Annual

Variability, In Eds, Ding et al., Global Monsoon System, Research and Forecast, World

Scientific Publications and World Meteorological Organization.

17. A.K. Srivastava, M. Rajeevan, L. Zubair and J. Revadekar, South Asia, in Blunden, Jessica,

Derek S. Arndt, 2012: State of the climate in 2011. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 93, S1–S282.

18. Zubair, L., M. Siriwardhana, J. Chandimala, and Z. Yahiya, 2008, Predictability of Sri

Lankan Rainfall based on ENSO, International Journal of Climatology. 28 (1): 91-101.

19. Zubair, L. and C.F. Ropelewski, 2006, The strengthening relationship of ENSO and the

North-East Monsoon rainfall over Sri Lanka and Southern India, Journal of Climate, 19 (8):

1567–1575.

20. Zubair, L., S. C. Rao and Toshio Yamagata, 2003, The Influence of the Indian Ocean Dipole

on the Sri Lankan Maha rainfall, with Geophysical Research Letters,10 (2): 1063-1066

21. Zubair, L., Diurnal and Seasonal Wind Climate at Sita Eliya, Sri Lanka, Theoretical and

Applied Climatology, 71 (1-2): 119-127.

22. Zubair, L., 1998, Diurnal and seasonal variation of surface winds at Hambantota, Journal of

the National Science Council, Sri Lanka, 25(3).235-245p.

HYDROCLIMATOLOGY AND WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT

23. Chandimala, J. and L. Zubair, 2008, Predictability of Streamflow and Rainfall for Water

Resources Management in Sri Lanka, Journal of Hydrology, 335 (3-4), 303-312.

24. Zubair, L. and J. Chandimala, 2007, Epochal Changes in ENSO-Streamflow relations in Sri

Lanka, Journal of Hydrometeorology, 7 (6):1237-1246.

25. Zubair, L., 2004, Sensitivity of Kelani streamflow in Sri Lanka to ENSO, Hydrological

Processes, 17 (12) 2439-2448.

26. Zubair, L., 2003, ENSO influences on Mahaweli streamflow in Sri Lanka, International

Journal of Climatology, 23(1):91-102.

CLIMATE AND HYDROLOGICAL MODELING

27. Qian, J.-H., and L. Zubair, 2011, The effects of grid-resolution and domain choice on the

quality of simulations of the South Asian northeast monsoon rainfall, Monthly Weather

Review. 138 (7): 2780-2802

28. Mahanama, S., Koster, R., Riehl, & R. Zubair, L. (2007), The role of soil moisture in

seasonal streamflow predictability, Advances in Water Resources. 31 (3): 1333-1343.

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FLUID DYNAMICS 29. Zubair, L., 1995, Characterization of Intermittency in Turbulence, Physics of Fluids, 7 (8)

pp. 2089.

30. Zubair, L., K.R. Sreenivasan and M.V. Wickerhauser, 1991, Compression of turbulence

data and images using wavelet-packets, In Studies in Turbulence, Springer-Verlag, eds. T.

Gadsky, S. Sirkar and C. Speziale. pp. 489-513.

TERTIARY EDUCATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING

31. Zubair, L., 2009, Engendering Multi-disciplinarity and Quality: Environmental Education at

the University of Peradeniya, Chapter 2, In Ed. N. Hennanayake et al. Traversing No Mans

Land, University of Peradeniya, 2009, ISBN 978-955-30-1526-6.

32. Zubair, L., 2004, Towards Developing Weather and Climate Prediction for Sri Lanka,

Journal of the Institute of Engineers, Sri Lanka, XXXVII, 2:53-58.

33. Zubair, L., 2004, Weather and Climate in Sri Lanka: A Reference Guide, Natural Resources

Management Services, Kandy, Sri Lanka ISBN 955-8968-00-5.

Grants 2014-2017: Developing monitoring tools for managing drought risk and addressing the riddle

of increased drought tendency amidst the wetter climate change projections for Sri Lanka and

the Maldives, National Academy of Sciences, $180K (co-PI)

2012-2014: Modeling the impacts of a variable and changing climate on rice and sugarcane

agricultural systems in Sri Lanka, Agricultural Model Inter-comparison and Improvement

Project (AgMIP), Joint DfID, USDA, Columbia University Program, $400K, (PI)

2012-2015: Intra-Seasonal Climate Prediction for Sri Lanka and Maldives for Water

Resources Management, National Academy of Sciences, $150K (PI)

2011-2012: Climate change impacts on seasonally and intermittently open tidal inlets in Sri

Lanka and Thailand (CC-SIOTI), UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education. Subcontract

$20K, (I)

2010: The Impacts of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events on Cereal Production

Area and Yield in South and South-East Asia FAO-SEARO, $12K, (I)

2009-2013: Launching a Masters in Sustainable Development Practice at the University of

Peradeniya with a focus on Sri Lanka and Maldives, MacArthur Foundation, $200K, (co-PI)

2003 to 2008: Early Warning Systems for Malaria risk with the Anti-Malaria Campaign, the

International Water Management Institute and several partners. NOAA Climate Variability

and Human Health Program, Project Completed. $390K total, (PI).

2004-2005: Assessing predictability of seasonal rainfall in the Kelani river basin in Sri

Lanka, International Foundation for Science, Sweden, $12K, Supervisor.

2002 to 2003: A case study on Sri Lanka for the Global Disaster Hotspots project, World

Bank/ Earth Institute at Columbia University, sub-contract, $25K (PI).

2002 to 2005: Adaptation and Climate Change in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with Sri Lanka

Department of Meteorology, Coconut Research Institute, Tea Research Institute, Adaptation

to and Impact Assessment of Climate Change, START, Washington, D.C., $233K total,

Completed. (co-PI).

2001 to 2003: Climate Impacts on Wildlife was developed in collaboration with CEISIN and

CERC. IRI/Earth Institute at Columbia University, $50K, Work completed. (PI).

COMPLETED GRANT REPORTS

(All available at http://iri.columbia.edu/~lareef/reports/ )

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L. Zubair (PI), S.J. Connor, N. Ward, J. Shaman, M. Stieglitz, M. Cane, H. Yang, G. N. L.

Galapaththy, S. Mahanama, H.M. Faizal, U. Tennakoon, Z. Yahiya, S. Razick, M.

Sirwardhana, Analysis of Impacts of Climate Variability on malaria transmission and the

development of an early warning system, IRI Technical Report 2010.

L. Zubair (PI), J. Hansen, Z. Yahiya, M. Siriwardhana, J. Chandimala, S. Razick, U.

Tennakoon, K. Ariyaratne, I. Bandara, H. Bulathsinhala, T. Abeyratne and T.D.M.A. Samuel,

Adaptation and Impact Assessment to Climate Change (AIACC) project on Plantation

Agriculture in Sri Lanka, Component incorporated into final report submitted to START

secretariat, 2005, IRI Technical Report 2010.

L. Zubair (PI), B. Blumenthal, O. Ndiaye, R. Perera, N.Ward, J. Chandimala, V.

Ralapanawe, U. Tennakoon, M.R.A. Siraj, Z. Yahiya, H. Manthrithillake and W.L.

Hendawitharna, Evaluation of Climate and Habitat Interactions Affecting the Conservation

and Management of Asian Elephants in South-East Sri Lanka, International Research

Institute for Climate Prediction Technical Report, 2010.

L. Zubair (PI), R. Perera, B. Lyon, V. Ralapanawe, U. Tennakoon, U. Tennakoon, Z.

Yahiya, J. Chandimala and S. Razick, Fine Scale Natural Hazard Risk and Vulnerability

Identification Informed by Climate in Sri Lanka, International Research Institute for Climate

Prediction, Technical Report, 2010.

Teaching, Supervision and Mentoring GRADUATE EDUCATION

Courses Taught or Co-Taught

Climate Change in South Asia, Masters in Development Practice, University of Peradeniya,

Coordinated by Earth Institute at Columbia University, 2013

Climate Change, Global Classroom, Masters in Development Practice, 2010, 2011, 2012

Climate Impact Assessment, Masters in Climate and Society Program, Department of Earth

and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University, 2005 onwards.

Climate Adaptation, Climate and Water Resources Management, Environmental Science and

Policy Practicum, School of International and Policy Affairs, Columbia University. 2004,

2007, 2008.

Environmental Impact Assessment, Masters in Engineering, Water and Environmental

Resources Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2002.

Climate and Disaster Risk Management, Post-Graduate Institute of Science, Sri Lanka

Climate Diagnostics, Department of Physics, University of Colombo, 2002.

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Courses Taught or Co-Taught

Fluid Dynamics, Thermodynamics, History of Technology, Energy, Control Systems,

Engineering Design, Environmental Impact Assessment (Faculty of Engineering, University

of Peradeniya)

Dynamics, Yale University

THESES SUPERVISED

N. Fernando, Climate Impacts on Water Scarcity in the Deduru Oya Basin of Sri Lanka,

M.A., Climate and Society, Columbia University, August 2006.

L. K. Warren, Predicting Malaria Risk Using Climate Parameters: Evaluation of Methods,

Senior Thesis, Columbia University, May 2006.

L.V. Reyes, Vulnerability to Malaria in Sri Lanka, Senior Thesis, Barnard College, May

2006.

THESES CO-SUPERVISED

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N. Ramesh, A., Climate Change Impacts on Evapo-transpiration in India, M.Sc, Earth

System Science and Policy, University of North Dakota, June 2006.

H. Bulathsinhala, Climate Forecasting for Water and Environmental Management in Sri

Lanka, M.Sc., Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka, March 2005.

K. Ariyaratne, Numerical Model for Simulating Shoreline Change, M.Sc, Oceanography,

Post Graduate Institute of Science, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, May 2005.

RESEARH MENTORING

Shaky Sherpas, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, Research in Climate

and Infectious Diseases, May 2009 – December 2010.

Anna Lochard, L’Ecole de Mines de Paris, Research Supervision, March to October, 2010,

M.Sc in Environmental Engineering, Climate and hydropower production, January – June

2010.

Research Supervisor for Columbia University students in Climate Diagnostics and Climate

Adaptation:

o S. Hirsh (Ph.D Candidate, University of Sydney),

o H. Yang, (MD program, Harvard University Medical School)

o N. Fernando (Post Doctoral Research Scientist, University of Texas, Austin,

Geography),

o L. V. Reyes (Natural Resources Defense Council),

o S. Partridge (Climate Action California, Physics),

o A. Layns (Program Manager, NOAA NESDIS)

o D. Bader. (Center for Climate Change Studies, Columbia University)

o S. Sherpas (Ph.D candidate, City University of New York, Geography)

Research supervisor before Columbia University for

o Kusalika Ariyarathna (Ph.D, Texas Tech, Civil Engineering),

o M. Siriwardhana (Ph.D candidate, University of Western Ontario, Chemical and

Energy Engineering),

o A.U.K. Gunaratne (now Associate Prof. at Florida A&M University, Applied

Mathematics),

o S. Ramanayake (Lecturer, Sri Lanka Technical Training Institute, Mathematics),

o J. Ratnayake (Ph.D candidate, University of Indiana, Mathematics),

o A. Somasundera, (Lecturer, Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University

of Peradeniya),

Presentations and Conference Contributions 2014

Potential for Using Climate, Oceanic and Environmental Information for Fisheries Hazard

Risk Management and Fisheries Prospecting in Comoros, for Master Fishermen and

Officials, Ministry of Fisheries – Hairu Engineering Company Fisheries Program, Moroni,

February 7, 2014.

Climate Change Impacts On Rice Farming Systems in North Western Sri Lanka, Finishline

Workshop of the Agriculture Model Inter-comparison Program, Arusha, Tanzania. January

30-February 4, 2014.

2013

Current State of Knowledge on Characterizing Climate Variability and Climate Change and

its Impacts, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science, Theme Seminar on

Climate Change, Invited Lecture, Colombo, Sri Lanka. December 4, 2013.

Impact Assessment and Adaptation to Climate Change in North-West Sri Lanka, American

Agronomy Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida, 3-6, Novermber 2013

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Climate Change Impacts On Rice Farming Systems in North Western Sri Lanka, Global

Meeting of the Agriculture Model Inter-comparison Program, Columbia University, New

York, October 28-30, 2013

Intra-seasonal climate predictions for Sri Lanka and Maldives and its application for Water

Resources Management, USAID/National Academy of Science conference for Principal

Investigators, USAID/RDMA, Bangkok, September 30-October 5, Bangkok, Thailand.

Climate Adaptation: Lessons from Working with the State, South And Central Asia

Conference of the Fulbright Program and Sri Lanka National Conference of the Fulbright

program, Kochi, India and Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 2013

2012

Climate Change Impact Assessment for Rice and Sugarcane Agricultural Systems in Sri

Lanka, AgMIP South Asia Program Launch Workshop, Colombo. November 2012.

Crop yield forecasting for Sri Lanka, by CCAFS Theme 3 conference on Crop Yield

Forecasting, International Water Management Institute, Negombo, April 19, 2012

The Use of Climate Information in the Tropics: Learning from Practice, Department of

Environmental Science Seminar, State University of New York. Albany, NY.

Climate services for Sugarcane in Sri Lanka, Invited Lecture, Annual Sessions of the

Sugarcane Research Institute, Udawalawe, 15-16 March, 2012

2011

Climate and Renewable Energy, Invited Address, Global Forum of Sri Lankan Scientists, ,

National Foundation for Science, Sri Lanka, December 2011.

Climate and Agriculture in South Asia, AgMIP Program Launch Worshop, ICRISAT,

India, March 2011.

2010

Hydro-Climatic Diagnosis and Modeling to support Adaptation to Tropical Climate

Variability, SEAS Colloquium in Climate Science (SCiCS), Fu Foundation School of

Engineering and Applied Sciences, Columbia University. December 6, 2010.

Rates of Regional Ecosystem Change, Can Societies Adapt? International Graduate

Conference on Climate Change and People, Small Earth Nepal and Center for Capacity

Building, University of Colorado, Boulder. November 2010.

Climate Adaptation for Integrated Water Resources Management : Learning from Practice in

Sri Lanka, International Development Research Center, Ottawa, Canada. October 21,

2010.

Does tropical climate adaptation need advanced climate science? Division of Ocean and

Climate Physics seminar, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, October 15, 2010.

Climate justice in relation to adaptation and Ecohealth in Southern South Asia, EcoHealth

Conference, London, August 2010.

2009 • The Use of Climate Information in the Tropics: Learning from Practice, School of Marine and

Atmospheric Sciences, State University of New York. Stony Brook.

• Developing Climate Services and Climate Risk Management for Maldives, Male, Maldives

Ministry of Environment.

• Sustainability Practice in Sri Lanka, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, Launch Workshop on the

Masters in Development Practice at the University of Peradeniya.

• Adaptation for Integrated Water Resources Management in the Tropics, Department of

Engineering Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA., School of

Engineering.

2008

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Analysis of Impacts of Climate on Malaria for Risk Predictions, EcoHealth Conference,

Merida, Mexico, December, 2008.

Malaria Risk Prediction using Climate and Environment Monitoring and Prediction:

Demonstration in Sri Lanka, EcoHealth Conference, Mexico, December 2008.

Soil Moisture Memory and Predictability of Seasonal Streamflow in Sri Lanka, Western

Pacific Geophysics Conference, Cairns, Australia, July 2008

Inter-Annual Variability and Decadal Change of the North-East Monsoon Rainfall over

South Asia, Western Pacific Geophysics Conference, Cairns, Australia, July 2008.

2007

(1) Some Climate and Malaria Linkages in Sri Lanka, (2) Climate and Hydrological

Monitoring and Prediction for Sri Lanka, NOAA Climate and Malaria Project Conclusion

Workshop. International Water Management Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka, September

2007.

Fine-scale analysis for malaria risk prediction, Greater Horn of African Climate Outlook

Forum and Malaria Outlook Forum, Nairobi, Kenya. March 5-10, 2007.

Developing a Suite of Climate Information for Applications for Sri Lanka, ESSIC, University

of Maryland, Silver Spring, Maryland. February 16, 2007.

2006

Hydroclimatological Simulation over Sri Lanka Using Global Reanalyses, American

Geophysical Union Annual Conference, San Francisco.

Progress in Developing a Climate based Malaria Early Warning System in Sri Lanka,

Climate Predictions and Applications Sciences Workshop, Tucson, 21-24 March 2006.

Using Climate Information for River Basin Management in Sri Lanka, Invited Presentation,

Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, February 2, 2006.

Human Elephant Conflict in Sri Lanka: Climate Impacts on Water and Fodder. International

Conference on Humid Tropical Ecosystems: Changes, Challenges, Opportunities, UNESCO

and National Science Foundation. 4-9 December, Kandy, Sri Lanka, 2006.

2005

Climate Risk Management: Case Studies in Public Health, Natural Disasters and Renewable

Energy, Biennal Conference of the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science

Professors, Clarkson University, Potsdam, New York, July 23-27.

Using Climate Information for Disaster Risk Identification in Sri Lanka, Climate Prediction

Applications Science Workshop, March 15-17, 2005, Palisades, New York.

2004

Complementary Dynamical and Statistical Downscaling from a GCM: Maha rainfall over Sri

Lanka, Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Using Climate Information for Disaster Risk Identification in Sri Lanka, Annual Meeting of

the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco.

Malaria and Climate Variability in Sri Lanka, Principal Investigators Meeting of the Joint

Program on Climate Variability and Human Health, Atlanta, Georgia,.

Using Climate Information for Disaster Risk Identification in Sri Lanka, Climate Prediction

Applications Science Workshop, March 15-17, 2005, Palisades, New York.

Climate Change Assessments for Sri Lanka from Quality Evaluated Data, International

Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management in the Changing Environment

of the Monsoon Region, United Nations University, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Weather, Climate Variability and Climate Change, Workshop Report, Synthesis Workshop

on Climate Variability, Climate Change and Health in Small-Island States, pages 13-14,

World Health Organization, Bandos, Maldives.

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2003

Sustainable River Basin Management under Climate Variability and Change, School of

Engineering, UNITEC Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand.

Climate Prediction for Water Resources Management in Sri Lanka, Office of the Minister of

Water Resources and Irrigation, Colombo.

Seasonal Climate Predictions and its Applications in Sri Lanka, International Water

Management Institute, Colombo.

Using Climate Information for Mahaweli river basin management, World Water and

Environmental Resources Congress 2003, Philadelphia.

Assessment of High-Risk Natural Disaster Hotspots of Sri Lanka, Open Meeting of the

Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Montreal, Canada, 2003.

2002

El Nino's impacts half a world away: Stories from Southern Asia, Lamont Doherty Earth

Observatory Open House, Palisades.

Application of Climate Information and Prediction, Frontier Research System for Global

Change Research, Yokohama.

Climate Variability, Climate Change and Water Resources, Frontier Research System for

Global Change Research.

2001

IRI Seminar on “Lessons from Last ENSO in Sri Lanka”, International Research Institute

for Climate Prediction, Palisades.

Sri Lanka Water Resources Project, International Scientific and Technical Advisory

Committee, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Palisades, New York.

IRI Water Resources Applications Project in Sri Lanka, NOAA Office of Global Programs,

Maryland.

Seasonal Streamflow Predictions from Global Sea Surface Temperatures: Applications to the

Mahaweli River in Sri Lanka, Climate Diagnostics Workshop, San Diego, October 2001.

1997-99 El Nino / La Nina Episode in Sri Lanka: Forecasts, Communication, Responses and

Impacts in an Indebted and Peripheral Country., Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of

Global Environmental Change Research Community, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2001.

2000

A dynamical model for orographic rainfall in monsoonal Sri Lanka, NOAA 25th Climate

Diagnostics Workshop, New York.

ENSO influences on rice production in Sri Lanka, Forum on Agriculture, Climate and

Development, New York, pp 179-184.

Climate Prediction for Water Resources Management, International Water Management

Institute, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

1999

Orographic Rainfall Modelling in a Monsoonal Climate, Indian Institute of Tropical

Meteorology, Pune, India, 1999.

A dynamical orographic rainfall model for Sri Lanka, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics

Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey, 1999.

A dynamical orographic rainfall model for Sri Lanka, Department of Atmospheric Sciences

and International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics, Iowa State University, Ames,

Iowa, 1999.

Orographic Rainfall Modeling for Sri Lanka, International Centre for Theoretical Physics,

Trieste, Italy. 1999

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Popular Publications Websites for publications where available are listed:

Daily Newspapers:

The Island (http://www.island.lk),

Daily Mirror (http://www.mirror.lk ),

Ceylon Daily News (http://www.dailynews.lk),

Sunday Observer (http://www.sundayobserver.lk )

New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com),

Yale Daily News (http://www.yaledailynews.com/ )

Magazines:

TIEMPO, UK, (http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/tiempo/ )

LINES, New York, (http://www.lines-magazine.org/ )

FRONTIER MAGAZINE, Japan (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/frcgc/eng/publications/)

University Publications:

University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka,

Professional Society Publications

Newsletter of the Institution of Engineers, Sri Lanka

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Climate

Dec 5, 2007: The Language of Climate in Sri Lanka, The Island.

July 2004: Empowering the Vulnerable, TIEMPO, 52:3-6, University of East Anglia, UK,

pdf version

Aug 2002, Saving Weather Data, TIEMPO, 49:16-22, University of East Anglia, UK.

May 2002: Questions for Climate Science from the Mahaweli Water Managers, Frontier

Newsletter, Volume 19.

June 2002: Climate Change and National Security, The Island, June 22, 2002.

August 2001: FAQ on “Drought in Sri Lanka” published in Lanka Academic Website.

December 2001: Essay on “Cricket and Climate in Sri Lanka”, Ceylon Daily News.

Environment and Development

August 2005: Sethusamudaram Canal: Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu at risk, Daily Mirror, 1

August, 2005, The Island, 5 October 2005.

August 2004, Hazards from excavating the Palk Straits for Shipping, The Island, 5 August,

2004.

May 1999: Lessons for South Asia from Nuclear Deterrence in the West, Pugwash

Conference on Science and Ethics in the New Millenium, San Diego, California.

April 1999: Hazards for Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka from the excavation of the Palk Straits,

Ceylon Daily News, 07-04-99 and Island, 29-03-1999.

May 1997: Visions of Development, Vortex Magazine, Faculty of Engineering, University of

Peradeniya.

March 1993: An illusion of prosperity in Ghana, New York Times.

Technology

April 1999: Windmills and Trojan Horses, Sri Lanka Engineering Newsletter and

Peradeniya Engineering Faculty Alumni Association Newsletter.

January 1998: Traditional Chemical Technology in Sri Lanka: Learning from John Davy,

Cheminique, University of Moratuwa.

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June 1989: Technology and development in under-developed countries: the case of Chemical

Technology in Sri Lanka, Student Pugwash Panel on Technology, Development and the

Environment. Boulder.

May 1986: The future of the urea plant in the balance, The Island.

Energy

May 2002: Why Government Institutions fail to Conserve Energy, The Island, May 27, 2002. August 2002: Conserving Energy at Home. Ceylon Daily Mirror, August 08, 2002

October 1997: Energy Audit of the University of Peradeniya, Cheminique, University of

Moratuwa.

August 1996: Conservation as an energy source, Ceylon Daily News, August 19, 1996.

University Education

May 1999: Plagiarism in the Faculty of Engineering, Peradeniya Engineering Faculty

Alumni Association Newsletter.

Dec 1998: The Study of Motion at Peradeniya, Sri Lanka Engineering Newsletter.

March 1998: Why Some Students at Peradeniya Rag, Ceylon Daily News.

March 1998: Ragging at Peradeniya: the harsh truths, Ceylon Daily News.

July 1995: Laced with Wit and Wry Humour: A Review of the History of the Faculty of

Engineering, University of Peradeniya, 1951-71 by Prof. S. Mahalingam, Sunday Observer.

November 1991: Restructuring Engineering at Yale, Yale Daily News.

Tsunami

March 2005: Science, Disaster Management and the Tsunami in Sri Lanka, International

Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, ICTP webcast.

February 2005: The geography of vulnerability and destruction, Lines Magazine

August 2005: Six Months On –An Editorial from the GeoLanka/RecoverLanka

administrators, The Island, 5 August 2005.

January 2005: The Tsunami, Science and Disaster Management, The Island, 27 January.

Team Leader for many features in Tsunami Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction Websites

that were widely cited and accessed: http://www.recoverlanka.net and

http://www.geolanka.net

Press Reports Websites for outlets where available:

Magazines:

NYAS Update, New York Academy of Sciences (http://www.nyas.org/publications/update/ )

Websites:

Science for Development, SciDev.net (http://www.scidev.net/ )

Earth Institute at Columbia University (http://www.earth.columbia.edu/ )

International Research Institute for Climate and Society (http://iri.columbia.edu/ )

May 2007: F. Fiondella, Mapping Natural Hazard Risks in Sri Lanka, International

Research Institute for Climate and Society website, May 21, 2007.

June-August 2005: Sheri Fink, Understanding the Tsunami’s Destruction: The Role of

Science, New York Academy of Sciences Update Magazine. P. 3-4,

http://www.nyas.org/publications/update/05_update_06.pdf

July 2004: SciDev.Net staff, Communities facing climate change need local science,

SciDev.net, http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2003/story02-18-03.html

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Feb 2003: Jennifer Freeman, Sachs Visit Boosts IRI Research, Earth Institute website

(http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2003/story02-18-03.html )